Arjun von Caemmerer

Arjun von Caemmerer is a Hobart-based writer, general medical practitioner, and certified Iyengar Yoga teacher.

His published writing encompasses poetry, short story, essay, musings on recorded music & CD liner notes and has been published diversely.

His poetry has been published in Siglo, The Australian, The Medical Journal of Australia, Unusual Work, The Rondo Hatton Report, Free Xpression, Famous Reporter, Yoga Rahasya, Yoga Vaani, extempore, EXT 2012, australianjazz.net, Move Records, blue giraffe, still heading out (Australian/New Zealand haiku anthology), paper wasp and one hundred gourds.

Lingua Franka, his concrete poetry homage to Frank Zappa, was exhibited at The Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Bond Store (Mona Foma 2010), the Australian National Academy of Music, and Montsalvat.

The 344-page book Vice Versa, new and selected poems (Collective Effort Press, 2016) provides a comprehensive introduction to Arjun's poetry. His most recent book, 'Bible Stories (2019)', was written to accompany composer Michael Kieran Harvey's 'Catalogue des Errances Bibliques'. Some of Arjun's concrete poems are anthologized in 'Wayword Forward' (Collective Effort Press, 2023). Arjun was a guest poet of the 2017 Tasmanian Poetry Festival and of the Australian Doctors Orchestra group in 2023.